The investment castings process has been in exsistence for many hundreds of years. It was only during the second world war, its full potential for mass manufacturing of parts was fully utilized on an industrial scale for casting critical parts like turbine blades and for arms and armaments.
Investment casting technology has come a long way since then. Today, the investment casting process is made use of produce large turbine blades for gas and steam turbines, high tech orthopaedic parts like knee joints, hip joints and ankle joints.
